Safety-pin



(No Model.) I I A. G. HOYSR'ADT.

SAFETY PIN.

. No. 580,314. Patenbed-Ap1x6, 1897'.

Azforn 637 tion of a dress-waist.

NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALICE G. I'IOYSRADT, OF HUDSON, NEW YORK.

SAFETY-Pl N.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 580,314, dated April 6, 1897.

Application filed December 22, 1896. Serial No- 616,670. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it knownthat I, ALICE G. HOYSRADT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Hudson, in the county of Columbia and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Safety-Pins; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in safety-pins; and its novelty and advantages will be fully understood from the following description and claim when taken in con j unction with the annexed drawings, in which Figure 1 is an elevation illustrating my improved safety-pins as detachably connecting a plurality of whalebones or steels to a por- Fig. 2 is an enlarged transverse section taken in the plane indicated by the line w to of- Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 is an enlarged perspective view of one of my improved pins.

Referring by letter to said drawings, Hindicates my improved pins. These pins H, one of which is shown in Fig. 3, respectively comprise a keeper I, which is of approximately right-angle form and is provided at its upper edge with a barrel, and is also provided at the ends of its horizontal portion with upturned flanges J and the pointed terminals K of a single piece of resilient wire L. The said piece of wire L, in addition to the terminals K, has the transverse portion M, fixed in the barrel of the'keeper I, the forwardly-extending portions N, and the coils P at the forward ends of the portions N, which merge into the terminals K, as illustrated.

In Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawings I have illustrated my improved pins as performing the functionfor which they are especially designed. Referring particularly to said figures, A B indicate the material and lining, respectively, of a dress-waist, which have inwardlydirected portions 0 D at the seams, and E indicates whalebones or steels, which are inclosed in covers F, said covers having the lat eral portions G extending beyond the edges of the whalebones or steels, as illustrated.

In using my improved pins to connect the covered whalebones or steels to the portions 0 D of the dress material and lining, the said covered bones or steels are laid over said-portions 0 D and the terminals K of the pins are passed first through the extended portion G of the cover'F at one side of the whalebone or steel, then through the portions 0 D of one sectionof the waist, then through the portions 0 D of the contiguous waist-section, and finally through the extended cover portion G at the opposite side of the whalebone, after which said terminals are placed in engagement with the keeper I in order to prevent the pins from casually working loose. -While the pins are effectually prevented from casually working loose, yet they may be as readily disconnected, when desired, as the ordinary safety-pins.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is- As animproved article of manufacture, the safety-pin for the purpose described comprising the keeper, of approximately right-angle form, provided atits upper edge with a barrel and also provided at the ends of its horizontal portion with upturned flanges, and the single piece of wire L, having the transverse portion M, fixed in the barrel of the keeper, the forwardly-extending portion N, the coils at the forward ends of the portions N, and the terminals K, pointed at their free ends, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in-presence of two witnesses.

ALICE G. HOYSRADT.

Witnesses:

SAML. B. OOFFIN, .0. B. BENSON. 

